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Inside WAAPA INSIDEWESTERN WAAPA AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS Official newsletter of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University (Issue 55) October 2019 HUGH JACKMAN receives top honour HELPMANN AWARD winners Composer wins 2019 BAFTA PLUS Awards, prizes and NEW scholarships Inside WAAPA Issue 55 Page 1 HELPMANN JACKMAN HONOURS RECEIVES ORDER FIVE WAAPA GRADUATES WIN OF AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA’S TOP PERFORMING On Friday 13 September, Hugh Jackman received his medal as a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) at an investiture ceremony at ARTS AWARD Government House in Canberra. The Hollywood and Broadway actor and singer was recognised in ongratulations to five WAAPA graduates who won 2019 the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in June for “eminent service to the Helpmann Awards, announced at two black-tie events held on performing arts as an acclaimed actor and performer, and to the global July 14 and 15 at Arts Centre Melbourne. C community, particularly as an advocate for poverty eradication”. The Helpmann Awards recognise distinguished artistic achievement The star of The Boy from Oz and X-Men is a global adviser to the Global and excellence across Australia’s live performing arts. Poverty Project, a World Vision ambassador and launched the Laughing WELCOME… Under artistic director Eamon Flack, Sydney’s Belvoir theatre company Man Coffee Company in 2011. garnered a massive 13 Helpmann Awards, including Best New Jackman’s philanthropic efforts also include work with the Fight Cancer In the short time I’ve been at WAAPA, I’ve been Australian Work and Best Play for Counting and Cracking and Best Foundation and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. hugely impressed by what I’ve seen: the students Musical for Barbara & the Camp Dogs. “Mr Jackman’s distinguished career, his compassion and his heartfelt are so accomplished, so skilled and confident, and Flack, who graduated from WAAPA’s Acting course in 2003, won Best patriotism have brought great credit to Australia and he is deserving of the staff are incredibly dedicated to providing the Direction of a Play with S. Shakthidharan forCounting and Cracking. our highest praise,” the Governor-General’s secretary Paul Singer said. best performing arts training possible. Tim Minchin, a 1998 Contemporary Music graduate, took out the Jackman, who graduated from WAAPA’s Acting course in 1994, is I am extremely excited about helping to enhance award for Best Australian Contemporary Concert for Back. After touring currently on his 2019 world tour performing hit songs from The WAAPA’s profile, especially internationally, so that Australia and New Zealand earlier this year, the show is touring the UK Greatest Showman, Les Miserables and The Boy from Oz. we are recognised worldwide for the outstanding until November. Jackman said he was “very honoured and very humbled” to be awarded training opportunities we provide. Hugely respected 2008 Acting alumnus Brent Hill won Best Male Actor in a Musical for his nationally, it is now time for WAAPA to enter the Australia’s highest civilian honour and thanked his family and the role as Dewey Finn in School of Rock the Musical. international stage and claim its place as one of the people who had supported him. Ursula Yovich, a 1996 graduate from the Aboriginal Performance course, world’s pre-eminent centres for performer training “The countless teachers, mentors, institutions who have supported was awarded Best Female Actor in a Musical for her role as Barbara and innovative research practice. me along the way are immeasurable, and I will always be in my and, with Alana Valentine and Adm Ventura, Best Original Score for There’s something extraordinary about the creative country’s debt.” Belvoir’s Barbara & the Camp Dogs. energy and the dynamic synergies at WAAPA – I look Hugh Jackman with His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) All four dancers nominated in the Best Female Dancer category were Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia forward to celebrating and proclaiming the work WAAPA graduates, with Tara Jade Samaya taking line honours from Photo by Irene Dowdy, idphoto.com.au of our students and graduates at every possible Carina Roberts (WA Ballet’s Dracula), Charmene Yap (Sydney Dance opportunity. Company’s Cinco) and Ashley McLellan (Dancenorth’s Dust). Samaya was named Best Female Dancer in a Ballet, Dance or Physical Theatre Production for her work in Chunky Move’sCommon Ground. BEST OFF BROADWAY “Carmel Dean’s melodies make the poetry The score consists of many of St. Vincent soar,” wrote The New York Times of the Millay’s poems set to music by Dean, original new musical, Renascence, which including the title work, an epic poem that Professor David Shirley premiered Off Broadway in New York City provides a 20-minute musical opus for the Executive Dean late last year. show’s finale. WAAPA, Edith Cowan University Dean, a 1999 WAAPA Music graduate, In 2001, after working on the 2000 Sydney wrote the score for Renascence, which won Olympic Games Opening and Closing the 2019 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Ceremonies, Dean was awarded a Fulbright Best New Musical. Scholarship that took her to New York MUSIC GRADUATE Above from left: Brent Hill and Ursula Yovich. University to complete a Master of Fine Arts Left: Eamon Flack with S. Shakthidharan. “It was such an honor to receive this award, CARMEL DEAN Photos by Rocket Weijers as there are so many new and exciting in Musical Theatre Writing. musicals that are produced every season, Since then, Dean has worked on the SCORES OFF- and to be included in and recognized as a Broadway musicals American Idiot, Hands BROADWAY AWARD part of this community is a great privilege, on a Hardbody, The 25th Annual Putnam especially as someone coming from the County Spelling Bee, and was musical other side of the planet!” emailed Dean director/conductor of If/Then, starring from New York. American music theatre star Idina Menzel. If you would prefer to receive an electronic version of “Renascence is the story of the Pulitzer Dean performed with Green Day and the Inside WAAPA or wish to unsubscribe, please email Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, cast of American Idiot at the Grammy [email protected] or visit the WAAPA website. a young woman from rural Maine who was Awards in 2010. waapa.ecu.edu.au defiant, brave and brilliant.” Page 2 Inside WAAPA Issue 55 Inside WAAPA Issue 55 Page 3 NIGHT MUSIC MAGIC JAZZ SAXOPHONE RELEASE EARNS RAVE REVIEWS WAAPA’s Coordinator of Jazz Studies Dr Oehlers wrote much of Night Music Dr Jamie Oehlers released his new as part of his WAAPA PhD thesis that album Night Music earlier this year to explores the interaction of melody within rave reviews. improvisation. He intends to use the Nikos Fotakis in AustralianJazz.net wrote: findings of his research to teach jazz “By now we have established that Jamie musicians to be better improvisers. Oehlers is a national treasure, one of our “I’ve always wanted to find a unique most important jazz saxophonists, soloists, approach to improvising, seeing as though composers, improvisers and educators. the majority of what we do as jazz artists Anyone needing further proof of that is making it up, so to speak,” he explains. should look no further than his latest “I have a really deep interest in how that album, Night Music… Oehlers presents occurs, in finding out how much is made yet another collection of memorable up and how much is determined by what tunes, delivered with passion, urgency we practice.” and vigour.” He describeds how his PhD explores ways A graduate of WAAPA and Boston’s Berklee of creating melodies outside of the normal College of Music, the internationally UK OPPORTUNITY pathways taught to jazz musicians, which acclaimed saxophonist recorded is usually related to scales and chords. JOINT ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS WILL ENABLE TWO CLASSICAL MUSIC Night Moves with four fellow WAAPA “It doesn’t mean that it creates music STUDENTS TO FURTHER THEIR STUDIES IN THE UK alumni: Ricki Malet on trumpet, Harry that’s totally abstract and unrecognisable, Mitchell on keys, Zac Grafton on bass it’s just a different approach to creating it.” Through Edith Cowan University’s ongoing research, and is the recipient of Times Sicari, who graduated from the RNCM in and Ben Vanderwal on drums. partnership with one of the world’s Higher Education Awards for Excellence 2018, said: “The RNCM is known for its leading conservatoires, WAAPA’s Classical and Innovation in the Arts (2015) and friendliness and welcoming nature; this is Music students now have the opportunity Outstanding International Student Strategy absolutely true and it made such an impact to broaden their horizons through (2016), and a Global Teaching Excellence on my time there. The people I met inspired substantial scholarships for overseas Spotlight Award (2018). me and I learnt many important lessons postgraduate studies. “The RNCM has enjoyed a strong from the teachers and guest artists who WAAPA and the Royal Northern College relationship with WAAPA for a number visited the College.” of Music (RNCM) are providing joint of years, and I am thrilled that we are One of these teachers is renowned English scholarships, worth £10,000 (A$18,600) developing this further through two soprano, Professor Lynne Dawson, Head of GUILDHALL GOLD each, to enable two of WAAPA’s graduating substantial joint scholarships alongside the School of Vocal Studies and Opera at classical music students to undertake a smaller bursaries and opportunities for staff the RNCM. In May, Professor Dawson was oprano Samantha Clarke has won the This outstanding achievement, which the year of postgraduate study at the RNCM and student exchange,” said Professor Linda a visiting guest artist at WAAPA, holding a 2019 Guildhall School of Music Gold 2013 WAAPA graduate described as ‘the in Manchester.
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